Previously >>99986315
What are you working on?

FAQ:
>How do I activate Windows?
https://github.com/massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts
HWID2 mimics a valid installation to generate a permanent legitimate license.

>Which version should I install?
W10 Enterprise IoT LTSC 2021
-10 yrs support, EoL 2032
-5 yrs on non-IoT LTSC
-No feature updates
-Comes with Win32 system utils
-Binary identical to Enterprise except no MS Store and no bloat apps
-If you need MS Store run this in cmd: wsreset -i
-Basically Windows: Classic 9x/XP/7 Edition, 10 years support and you decide when you want to update/upgrade

W10/W11 Home/Pro/Edu/Ent
-Dont install
-1.5-2 yrs support
-Constant forced updates
-Preinstalled bloatware apps (games, music, news, weather, people, onedrive, ads in start menu, etc)
*W11 specific
*Massive UI usability downgrades
*Taskbar removed features and options
*File explorer rewritten w/ reduced performance
*Has new CPU scheduler to support 12th+ gen Intel E-cores (its only redeeming feature)

>Is there a good version of W11?
No, 11 IoT LTSC *might* be good when released 24H2.

>How do I activate Office?
https://github.com/massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts
Alternatively, use MSOffice through your browser since it's free,
or try OnlyOffice/LibreOffice and set it to save as MSOffice file formats.

>ISOs:
Windows https://pastebin.com/nUMgAr0b
IoT LTSC https://pastebin.com/ywkasnhM
Office https://pastebin.com/G8w5qu6z

>Should I debloat or Optimize-Offline?
If you need to ask, then no. You WILL break something.
If you know what you're doing:
https://pastebin.com/S5VKBirt

>Windows/Office install guide
https://rentry.org/windowsinstallguide

>Portable programs & reinstall-proofing
https://pastebin.com/Zh7WSbJ2

>Useful programs for a new install
https://pastebin.com/hN8nnwns

>I miss Windows##
OpenShell/RetroBar/WinClassic/StartIsBack

WinInfo&OtherPastas:
https://rentry.org/fwt
https://rentry.org/ltsc
Change to .co if links don't work

Previous thread: >>99922670

/aicg/ - A general dedicated to the discussion and development of AI chatbots

smile editon

>News
gpt-4-turbo finally out of preview, not as fucked as the last preview snapshot
https://platform.openai.com/docs/models/gpt-4-turbo-and-gpt-4
gemini-1.5-pro is available to everyone, via API (turn off streaming if you're having filter errors) https://developers.googleblog.com/2024/04/gemini-15-pro-in-public-preview-with-new-features.html
Claude can now use tools https://docs.anthropic.com/claude/docs/tool-use

additional info: https://rentry.org/aicg_extra_information
lore: https://rentry.org/aicg_chronicles

>Bots
https://chub.ai
https://chub-archive.evulid.cc
https://rentry.org/meta_bot_list
https://booru.plus/+pygmalion

>Frontends
https://sillytavern.app [SillyTavern]
https://agnai.chat [Agnai]
https://risuai.xyz [RisuAI]
https://docs.miku.gg [Miku]
https://character.ai [CAI]

>Botmaking
https://rentry.org/meta_botmaking_list
https://desune.moe/aichared
https://agnai.chat/editor

>Guides
https://rentry.org/tavern4retards

>Jailbreaks
https://rentry.org/jb-listing

>Models
claude: https://docs.anthropic.com
gpt: https://platform.openai.com/docs
gemini: https://ai.google.dev/docs
local: >>>/g/lmg
https://rentry.org/meta_golocal_list

>Meta
OP templates: https://rentry.org/aicgOP
services assessment: https://rentry.org/aicg_meta
fun JBs and prompts: https://rentry.org/weirdbutfunjailbreaksandprompts - https://rentry.org/jinxbreaks
sultra: https://github.com/kingbased/gemini
logs: https://chatlogs.neocities.org
aicg botmaking events: https://rentry.org/meta_event_list

smiling: >>100019478

/lmg/ - a general dedicated to the discussion and development of local language models.

Previous threads: >>100014643 & >>100003484

►News
>(04/15) Microsoft AI unreleases WizardLM 2: https://web.archive.org/web/20240415221214/https://wizardlm.github.io/WizardLM2/
>(04/09) Mistral releases Mixtral-8x22B: https://twitter.com/MistralAI/status/1777869263778291896
>(04/09) Llama 3 coming in the next month: https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/09/meta-confirms-that-its-llama-3-open-source-llm-is-coming-in-the-next-month/
>(04/08) StableLM 2 12B released https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/stablelm-2-12b
>(04/05) Qwen1.5-32B released with GQA: https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen1.5-32B

►FAQ: https://wikia.schneedc.com
►Glossary: https://archive.today/E013q | https://rentry.org/local_llm_glossary
►Links: https://rentry.org/LocalModelsLinks
►Official /lmg/ card: https://files.catbox.moe/cbclyf.png

►Getting Started
https://rentry.org/llama-mini-guide
https://rentry.org/8-step-llm-guide
https://rentry.org/llama_v2_sillytavern
https://rentry.org/lmg-spoonfeed-guide
https://rentry.org/rocm-llamacpp

►Further Learning
https://rentry.org/machine-learning-roadmap
https://rentry.org/llm-training
https://rentry.org/LocalModelsPapers

►Benchmarks
General Purpose:
https://hf.co/spaces/HuggingFaceH4/open_llm_leaderboard
https://hf.co/spaces/lmsys/chatbot-arena-leaderboard
Programming: https://hf.co/spaces/bigcode/bigcode-models-leaderboard
Censorbench: https://codeberg.org/jts2323/censorbench

►Tools
Alpha Calculator: https://desmos.com/calculator/ffngla98yc
GGUF VRAM Calculator: https://huggingface.co/spaces/NyxKrage/LLM-Model-VRAM-Calculator
Sampler visualizer: https://artefact2.github.io/llm-sampling/index.xhtml

►Text Gen. UI, Inference Engines
https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui
https://github.com/LostRuins/koboldcpp
https://github.com/lmg-anon/mikupad
https://github.com/turboderp/exui
https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp

Why can't China innovate?

I want to use my phone less and less, the only thing I rely on it for now is music through Spotify. I want to keep my phone at home or in a dresser somewhere and not be contacted.

Is there any device I can use that will connect to Spotify and play my downloaded songs? I thought about pirating + mp3 player but that would take a long time and limits me to songs I already know of. Is my only choice to buy an overpriced second phone and not put a sim card in it?

My background is essentially Python and SQL, but I want to learn a language that's lower-level to get acquainted with systems programming and high performance applications.

Should I go with C, C++ or Rust? I have absolutely no knowledge of that field as a whole.
Also, how useful is it to learn asm?

>be CEO of startup, launch product
>give this guy review copy
>scrutinizes your product
>$250,000,000 of shareholder value erased in a heartbeat

Since the addition of email validation yesterday, /biz/ is dead. Traffic to the board is in the toilet.
Which boards are next?

If some vidya for PC gets a physical release, what's the best medium to release it on? As in an actual release with content on the medium instead of just having fancy packaging for a product key. I've seen some publishers do limited physical releases of their games on flash drives, which these days are more accessible than CD-ROM's given how many gaming desktops forego DVD (or M-disc) drives, but I heard flash drives lose their data if they're not plugged in for a few years, which makes me think they're worse than disc media if you're picking the physical game up from a bargain bin several years after it came out. I guess cartridges are also an option if you do a Switch release, but I'm specifically talking about PC games here.

For the sake of the argument, assume that said disc media isn't bound by its capacity. I mentioned CD-ROM's, but let's say your game can also release on a Blu-ray or a bunch of DVD-ROM's instead if you want.

/g/-related instead of /v/-related because this is about the longevity of different kinds of physical media